Miss Younger's Math Musings
Over the past two school years I have been working towards fully implementing the Building Thinking Classrooms approach to teaching math. I’ve found that this has also led to me looking for a much wider library of rich math tasks. Changing my approach to teaching math has really opened my eyes to what is possible…
Resilient Problem Solving.pptx Over the past few weeks my definition and beliefs around innovation and what counts as innovation has shifted. Only a few weeks ago I believed that to innovate you had to be doing something brand-new and never seen before and that I was not an innovator. Over the past few weeks while…
Introduction The idea of Intelligent Fast Failure resonated with me instantly, that giving students the opportunity to not only try but to fail allowed them to fully engage in the learning process. “Students who tried lots of ideas in a short period of time were going through a process of fast failure wherein each failed…
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I found this assignment challenging, as my thinking about curriculum and planning has always been fluid and further evolved while reading in this module. Representing the ideas visually was tricky, as a learner with ADHD I often describe my thinking as in webs rather than in lines or patterns, I jump from one connection to…
I currently teach grade 4 and have for the past four school years. When looking at my planning process in relation to my key words I have found some areas of strength and a few areas of weakness. Doing this activity helped me to highlight some focus areas for next year. I aim for a…
The photos above are personal and family photos that I use to engage students at the beginning of my Great Bear Rainforest and Salish Sea unit. I use two thinking routines with these images, “See, Think, Wonder” from Project Zero and “Observe, Wonder, Infer” from Reading Power. These images are unique set that my students…
I have created a presentation on how to create inquiry units. The presentation reflects my process and how I would present it in a workshop to other teachers. This presentation also sums up my learning over the past several weeks showing how I have deepened my understanding of using inquiry as a tool to get…
Over the last few weeks, I have been exposed to many new thinking routines that I am excited to try with my students in the fall. Looking at these routines I can see so many valuable opportunities for growth. My goal next year is to have my students be the primary thinkers in the classroom…
In my most recent course we have done a lot of work on questioning and asking good questions. My response below comes from the thinking routine I used to think .. Now I think from Project Zero. https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/I%20Used%20to%20Think%20-%20Now%20I%20Think_1.pdf Resources for questioning that changed my thinking Factual, Conceptual, Debatable Questions Essential Questions Good Inquiry Questions Characteristics…
I have attached my template and my the beginning of my Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest unit. I typically only plan the first few detailed lessons of an inquiry unit in advance as they are the ones I use to build curiosity and back ground knowledge before diving into the inquiry with my students…
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